PPS Instructional Technology

  USING BREAKOUT ROOMS IN GOOGLE MEET So what are Breakout Rooms? Simply put, Breakout rooms are the ability to section your students into smaller groups within your video-conferencing software. Basically small groups in digital form! But… how can you do it? CREATE BREAKOUT ROOMS On your computer, start a Google Meet.  In the top right, click Activities     Breakout rooms. In the Breakout rooms panel, choose the number of breakout rooms. You can create up to 100 breakout rooms in a call.  Students are then distributed across the rooms. To manually move students into different rooms, you can: Enter the participant’s name directly into a breakout room. Click the participant’s name. Hold down the mouse, drag the name, and then drop it into another breakout room.  To randomly mix up the groups again, click Shuffle  . In the bottom right, click "Open rooms". EDIT, JOIN, or LEAVE BREAKOUT ROOMS Once you’ve created breakout rooms, you can make chang...